NAME
     el – a simple editline(3) front-end

SYNOPSIS
     el [-Cefv] [-h history-size] [-p prompt] output [file ...]
     el [-ev] [-E editor-type] [-h history-size] [-p prompt] -d output-fd
        [file ...]
     el [-ev] [-E editor-type] [-h history-size] [-p prompt] -c command
        [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
     Read from the tty using editline(3) and write the results to output.

     The arguments are as follows:

     -C      If output does not exist, create it.  Overrides -f.

     -e      Set the editor type to “emacs”.

     -f      If output does not exist, create it as an fifo.  Overrides -C.

     -v      Set the editor type to “vi”.

     -E editor-type
             Set the editor type, if no type is provided the best guess will
             be infered from either VISUAL or EDITOR.

     -h history-size
             Set the number of history elements to keep.

     -p prompt
             Set the prompt.

     file ...
             Write the concatenation of the provided files to output before
             reading from the tty.

EXIT STATUS
     The el utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO
     editline(3) editrc(5)
